Alex Otti Of Abia And Peter Mbah Of Enugu: Between Making Noise And Making News

Alex Otti of Abia and Peter Mbah of Enugu: Between Making Noise and Making NewsBy Jude Ndukwe While Alex Otti with all his social media hype, propaganda, half-truths, and outright falsehood, could only commission three streets (University Road, Green Avenue and College Road) of a combined 3km in Aba, and the expansion of an already existing 3.5km 4-lane Ossah road to a 6-lane road in Umuahia with elaborate fanfare and live telecast on one of the nation's leading TV stations to mark his first anniversary in office, his counterpart in Enugu, PDP's Dr Peter Mbah, with little or no noise in the media commissioned a whopping 71 roads to mark his own first anniversary in office.Some of the roads Mbah commissioned are Broderick Street, Silver Smith Street, Asata Mine Road, Ogbete – Jamboree – Ajogwu Road, all at Coal Camp, as well as Emeka Ebila, Idaw River Secondary School Road, Umuchu Street, Omachiani Street, Iloh Franco Street, St. Charles Street, Umu Ohachie Street, and Ozoude Street, as well as Meniru Street, and Mount Street Bypass, all in Idaw River.Others are Bishop Anyogu Street, College Road, Edeozie Street, Kenyatta Street to Timber Road under Uwani Zone and St. Peter’s Road, Odudukoko Street, the Garki flyover as well as four flyover ramps at each of Garki and Amechi Awkunanaw flyover all in Gariki Zone among others.The difference between the two is that while one is making news, the other one is making noise, and even some otherwise intelligent people can't decipher between news and noise, and are faling for the noise from Otti.